Reeves-Ellington / Sklar / Shemo Competing Kingdoms

Women, Mission, Nation, and the American Protestant Empire, 1812–1960
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9259-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten

Reihe: American Encounters/Global Interactions

A collection exploring how American women missionaries spread U.S. cultural imperialism along with Protestant Christianity from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth, and how their work was received.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reeves-Ellington, Barbara

Sklar, Kathryn Kish

Shemo, Connie A.

Joseph, Gilbert M.

Rosenberg, Emily S.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Missionierung und Konvertierung
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction / Barbara Reeves-Ellington, Kathryn Kish Sklar, and Connie Schemo 1

I. Re-visioning American Women in the World

Women's Mission in Historical Perspective: American Identity and Christian Internationalism / Jane H. Hunter 19

Woman, Missions, and Empire: New Approaches to American Cultural Expansion / Ian Tyrrell 43

II. Women

Canonizing Harriet Newell: Women, the Evangelical Press, and the Foreign Mission Movement in New England, 1800–1840 / Mary Kupiec Cayton 69

An Unwomanly Woman and Her Sons in Christ: Faith, Empire, and Gender in Colonial Rhodesia, 1899–1906 / Wendy Urban-Mead 94

"So Thoroughly American": Gertrude Howe, Kang Cheng, and Cultural Imperialism in the Women's Foreign Missionary Society, 1872–1931 / Connie Shemo 117

From Redeemers to Partners: American Women Missionaries and the "Woman Question" in India 1919–1939 / Susan Haskell Khan 141

III. Mission

Settler Colonists, "Christian Citizenship," and the Women's Missionary Federation at the Bethany Indian Mission in Wittenberg, Wisconsin, 1884–1934 / Betty Ann Bergland 167

New Life, New Faith, New Nation, New Women: Competing Models at the Door of Hope Mission in Shanghai / Sue Gronewold 195

"No Nation Can Rise Higher than Its Women": The Women's Ecumenical Missionary Movement and Tokyo Women's Christian College / Rui Kohiyama 218

Nile Mother: Lillian Thrasher and the Orphans of Egypt / Beth Baron 240

IV. Nation

Embracing Domesticity: Women, Mission, and Nation Building in Ottoman Europe, 1832–1872 / Barbara Reeves-Ellington 269

Imperial Encounters at Home: Women, Empire, and the Home Mission Project in Late Nineteenth-Century America / Derek Chang 293

Three African American Women Missionaries in the Congo, 1887–1899: The Confluence of Race, Culture, Identity, and Nationality / Sylvia M. Jacobs 318

"Stepmother America": The Woman's Board of Missions in the Philippines, 1902–1930 / Laura R. Prieto 342

Conclusion. Doing Everything: Religion, Race, and Empire in the U.S. Protestant Women's Missionary Enterprise, 1812–1960 / Mary A. Renda 367

Selected Bibliography 391

Contributors 397

Index 401

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara Reeves-Ellington is Associate Professor of History at Siena College in Loudonville, New York.Kathryn Kish Sklar is Distinguished Professor of History at the State University of New York, Binghamton.Connie A. Shemo is Assistant Professor of History at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh.